Even Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James is watching Sunday's blowout AFC Divisional Round contest between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs.

The future Hall of Famer James, 35, who recently missed his second game of the season in yesterday's win over the Oklahoma City Thunder with an illness. shared his thoughts of the Texans' first-quarter gargantuan lead over No. 2 Chiefs, favored to advance to the conference championship.

“Luckily this ain't Madden,” James joked on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, referencing the popular, multi-console football video game licensed by the NFL. “So much more game to be played. Texans off to one helluva start to this one of the road.”

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In the past, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, who led the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999-2012, has been scrutinized for his mismanagement of the clock in postseason games. However, this time around Reid's team has to worry about coming back from behind down big in the first half of today's divisional round tilt in order to prevent an all–AFC South conference championship bout between the Texans and Tennessee Titans, who upset the No. 1 Baltimore Ravens on Saturday, with a trip to Super Bowl LIV in Miami, Florida, on the line.

James, despite his otherworldly talent, has been down big before, including famously in 2016 in the NBA Finals down three games to one against the regular-season 73-win Golden State Warriors. Nevertheless, the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron gritted out three straight wins to clinch the franchise's first title in history and the forward's third in his storied career.

It's not quite at that stage yet, but the Chiefs could make history by climbing back from a first-half deficit now at 24 points after the Texans decided not to go for it on fourth-and-one and instead knock in a field goal to extend their early lead in Kansas City.